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VERACITY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unwillingness to tell lies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("veracity" is a kind of...):

truthfulness (the quality of being truthful)

Antonym:

mendacity (the tendency to be untruthful)

Derivation:

veracious (habitually speaking the truth)

Credits

 Context examples: 

There is an air of truth apparent through the whole; and indeed the author was so distinguished for his veracity, that it became a sort of proverb among his neighbours at Redriff, when any one affirmed a thing, to say, it was as true as if Mr. Gulliver had spoken it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)